These days new version of Azure Service Bus for Windows Server was published. That means updating of all running farms, which is not really my lovely task. And, as expected my Workflow Manager Setup ran in following error: I grabbed in the log file and found same information shown in dialog above...

There are many situations in Business when some Business Process has to be orchestrated by multiple incoming messages. For all of you who are not very familiar with system integration, here are few words about it. Imagine your need to implement an application which is driven by multiple events. For example...

When Working with Share Point Workflows (Workflow Manager) you might notice following error in the event log. The associated workflow has been deprecated. In the normal system state this error should never happen. However the Workflow Manager Client API allows you to write peace of code which does not...

Imaging you are receiving some events which have to be used to activate new workflow instance Wi of some workflow type W. As long the workflow completes faster than new events arrives, successive workflow activation will execute ordered. That means for each event Ek, workflow instance Wk will be activated...

Assume you have an activity which is executing for very long time. This is so called Long-Running workflow. In fact long-running scenario is one of scenarios in Commuter Sciences which practically can very easy be solved by Using Microsoft Workflow Foundation. Following workflow show never ending workflow...

To get a feeling how SharePoint Workflows look like under the hub take a look on following example: http://developers.de/media/p/422263.aspx . This is the original XML which fully (natively) describe the workflow deployed by SharePoint. Following picture shows a snapshot of the XML which can be downloaded...

Note that when using workflows with Variables of type Exception, you might run into serialization issues. This is usually not a general Workflow problem. However if you use persistence feature, workflow host with enforce serialization of all variables in the workflow. Because Exception is not...

RTM Build of Service Bus and Workflow Manager 1.0 is available for download in Microsoft Download Center: It is up to now still not officially announced in term of marketing drums, but first posts published 1 hour ago by team members are out there. Anyhow the bits which can be downloaded (click on image...

Due the fact that Windows Azure Workflow (Workflow Manager) is designed to run in the cloud, which is multitenant focused architecture, the host of workflow (Workflow Manager) must fulfill several security requirements. One of used approaches is so called “Trusted Surface”. This means that subset of...

After successful installation of Windows Azure Workflow, the IIS will contain a new site which is setup to host workflow management engine (Workflow Host Manager). When you open IIS Manager (inetmgr) you will notice Workflow Management Site. This site has by default HTTP and HTTPS bindings enabled. That...

In July 2012 Microsoft has for the first time published a peace of Windows Azure which is installable locally (On-Premise). It is Service Bus (v1 BETA) which is slightly adapted version of Windows Azure Service Bus. If you are aware of this product this post will help you to install it. If you are new...

This post is related to BETA version of Service Bus Server and Workflow Host which is used in Share Point 2013. It should help you to uninstall previous version of Service Bus and Workflow. Use the following procedure to remove Workflow and Service Bus from a node in a farm. You must perform these actions...

The OnPrem version of Windows Azure Service Bus is probably firs peace of Azure Cloud which can be installed on your laptop. Personally I would call it Enterprise Service Bus, which can and should be used for almost any kind of messaging in enterprise. The good thin on this is that the exactly (more...

This post is related to currently named Windows Azure Workflow 1.0. I describes how to configure the Workflow Host farm. If you chose to create the farm, the configuration wizard will create three required databases: Management Database Resource Management Database Instance Management Database At this...

Few days ago I showed the Demo at WinDays 2012 keynote under the name “SharePoint Ralay”. The idea of the keynote was to show some important features which never have been shown or documented in the way as of very one common industry scenario. To keep things simple we didn’t go to deep into details of...